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Re: You have no taste snoopcester Send a noteboard - 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM
Fair enough. It wasn't exactly the first movie from this list I intended to see anyway.


Good plan, at least they had it near the bottom as well but I suspect even that is more about the hype around the books.

I can tell. Maybe I should give it another chance, then.


You just need to enjoy it for what it is, a really good version of the old 1970s Japanese films done with a bit of humour.

Oh, close enough to perfectly understood, in the respective parts of the country, except perhaps for heavy dialects that would likely not be understood by all French/Dutch viewers themselves either. (This fact notwithstanding, Flemish television has taken to subtitling Dutch television programmes (and the other way around, but that makes more sense), but then again it has also taken to subtitling Flemish television programmes in which anyone speaks anything remotely resembling dialect.)


Ah, I wasn't sure how much the dialects would make it difficult. With the subtitling, it does seem to be more and more common for it to be done when I'm really not sure there is a real need - I can't remember what it was on but I was over at a friend's house a few weeks ago after a night out and the best thing on TV was some american reality TV type show, there was a woman who spoke really clear english with a slight Japanese accent and they felt the need to provide subtitles. Which was quite funny:P

Anyway, yeah, we do have a foreign language knowledge advantage, and even a native language advantage of sorts for Dutch and French movies respectively. It's more a matter of popularity and what is shown, I guess. The Walloons see a fair amount of French movies, but in Flanders really nearly everything is American. In my local movie theatre, there's usually ten to twelve movies playing at any given time, and eight to ten of those will be American, with the rest either Flemish (increasingly so of late, admittedly), French/Walloon or from other origins. Rarely Dutch. There was another theatre with a more arthouse choice of movies (if you can call it arthouse; it kept playing Amélie once a week for literally a year straight), which obviously means more non-English, but it's closed now due to lack of visitors, so well...


I guess over all the key factors are probably the same - the American films have the biggest budgets and the biggest names, as well as the most aggresive promotion, so it outweighs over factors.
I guess Amelie isn't as popular as they hoped;)

Yeah. But then you're not really an average Briton, either. :P Even if I have no idea how your foreign languages are, now that you mention it...


I'll take that as meant in a good way:P
My grasp of foreign languages is pretty shocking, though it is from it being something I just have no ability with despite trying rather than not caring.
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Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Legolas - 31/08/2010 02:50:01 PM 1666 Views
As for my quibbles with the list... Legolas - 31/08/2010 03:01:43 PM 1052 Views
Since it's "World Cinema," does that automatically exclude U.S. films? *NM* Palatine - 31/08/2010 05:51:00 PM 493 Views
It usually means non-English language films *NM* snoopcester - 31/08/2010 06:36:34 PM 468 Views
Not only that, it also seems to exclude British, Australian and other English-language ones. Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:57:19 PM 911 Views
No one minds Australia's exclusion. All they make is bad Jackie Chan films. *NM* TaskmasterJack - 31/08/2010 10:55:18 PM 368 Views
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert would've been a shoe-in otherwise... *NM* Legolas - 01/09/2010 12:14:28 AM 383 Views
And after somebody brought up Requiem for a Dream in the other thread... Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:15:51 PM 886 Views
Hey I've only seen 21 ironclad - 31/08/2010 03:40:54 PM 966 Views
My opinion of their list rose by a fair bit when I saw La vita è bella was not on it. Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:56:15 PM 945 Views
What exactly is Battle Royale doing there? Lordling - 31/08/2010 04:07:46 PM 1063 Views
Juno is Canadian-American though. ironclad - 31/08/2010 07:40:20 PM 969 Views
I'm quite surprised to see that La Vita e bella (Life is Beautiful) isn't on the list. *NM* Missa Sedai - 31/08/2010 04:51:53 PM 656 Views
Me too. Pleasantly surprised. *NM* Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:57:47 PM 482 Views
Really? I thought the movie was fantastic and well-made. *NM* Missa Sedai - 01/09/2010 12:36:05 AM 489 Views
In fairness, Roberto Benigni being an overrated ass doesn't mean his only good film isn't good. Legolas - 01/09/2010 01:01:21 AM 978 Views
We may have to fight, now. Camilla - 01/09/2010 10:47:45 AM 925 Views
He's so ridiculously full of himself. Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:10:27 PM 965 Views
Re: He's so ridiculously full of himself. Camilla - 01/09/2010 02:15:34 PM 960 Views
I've seen 28, so nearly a third snoopcester - 31/08/2010 06:50:43 PM 905 Views
I've seen Zatoichi among those you name... Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:59:14 PM 888 Views
You have no taste snoopcester - 31/08/2010 08:10:26 PM 1006 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 31/08/2010 08:34:03 PM 972 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 31/08/2010 10:02:45 PM 931 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 31/08/2010 10:21:25 PM 963 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 01/09/2010 10:34:14 AM 989 Views
Re: You have no taste Legolas - 01/09/2010 01:56:48 PM 926 Views
Re: You have no taste snoopcester - 01/09/2010 02:55:56 PM 868 Views
I've seen a Belgian film lately ironclad - 31/08/2010 10:14:12 PM 770 Views
No, but I've heard a fair bit about it. Legolas - 31/08/2010 10:23:49 PM 929 Views
Good point Camilla - 01/09/2010 11:06:15 AM 896 Views
I've seen a whopping 4.....but in my defense, I hate subtitles, so I just don't watch these movies *NM* Brian - 31/08/2010 07:49:38 PM 530 Views
Well, you miss out on a ton, then. *NM* Legolas - 31/08/2010 07:59:33 PM 451 Views
Indeed....many of them are available on Netflix streaming though, so maybe I'll watch some soon *NM* Brian - 31/08/2010 08:17:39 PM 488 Views
only 11 myself and i don't think that my neighbour totoro is as good princess monoke *NM* Foxhead - 31/08/2010 08:20:15 PM 552 Views
only saw like 15 of them, but I think the list is somewhat weird. *NM* jh - 31/08/2010 08:32:34 PM 485 Views
Only seen 8 nossy - 31/08/2010 10:43:15 PM 893 Views
Re: Only seen 8 Legolas - 01/09/2010 12:17:17 AM 1143 Views
Re: Only seen 8 nossy - 01/09/2010 04:27:38 AM 950 Views
Some of those films are really not Jen films snoopcester - 01/09/2010 10:36:36 AM 945 Views
You might be surprised what I'll watch. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:09:05 PM 929 Views
I wasn't suggesting you wouldn't watch them snoopcester - 01/09/2010 04:38:57 PM 962 Views
You mean you have discovered movies jh - 01/09/2010 08:10:12 PM 950 Views
That's a lot of Asian movies... Legolas - 01/09/2010 11:54:59 AM 952 Views
Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:11:41 PM 1143 Views
Re: Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. Legolas - 01/09/2010 04:24:34 PM 926 Views
Re: Yeah, I tend to really like even the silly ones. nossy - 01/09/2010 04:36:54 PM 894 Views
I've seen 7 and plan to see at least 3 more! WTF?!?!?! Cannoli - 01/09/2010 01:14:45 AM 994 Views
I've seen 32. Tom - 01/09/2010 04:27:31 AM 948 Views
Nice. I agree with a lot of your assessments. Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:02:30 PM 1010 Views
Well, I don't think that she could have made that movie IN Iran... Tom - 02/09/2010 09:51:17 PM 887 Views
Night Watch? Really? Fun book, bad movie. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/09/2010 07:29:58 AM 417 Views
Yeah the film wasn't much to write home about, opposite to what the trailer made you believe *NM* ironclad - 01/09/2010 11:37:05 AM 405 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Camilla - 01/09/2010 11:05:17 AM 1018 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema snoopcester - 01/09/2010 11:31:59 AM 944 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Legolas - 01/09/2010 02:09:20 PM 857 Views
Re: Empire's 100 Best Films of World Cinema Camilla - 01/09/2010 02:19:58 PM 899 Views
I've seen like 10 BlackAdder - 01/09/2010 11:35:58 AM 951 Views
I've seen eight but Cache is on tonight so I'll watch that. Stephen - 01/09/2010 03:56:31 PM 864 Views
I've seen one Haneke movie (La Pianiste), and I've decided I'm going to keep it that way. Legolas - 01/09/2010 04:08:55 PM 919 Views
I haven't seen any of his other films so I'm not sure what to expect really Stephen - 01/09/2010 04:26:40 PM 932 Views
So what did you think? *NM* Legolas - 02/09/2010 09:43:18 PM 376 Views
Same, except it was "Funny Games" that did it to me *NM* ironclad - 01/09/2010 08:30:34 PM 471 Views
8 MonCul - 02/09/2010 08:59:44 PM 948 Views
I sense a few amazon.com orders coming soon. Vodalus - 19/11/2010 06:20:53 AM 960 Views
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